{"id":423143,"date":"2022-03-29T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-girl-from-plainville-is-a-refreshingly-sensitive-take-on-a-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:55:53","slug":"the-girl-from-plainville-is-a-refreshingly-sensitive-take-on-a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-girl-from-plainville-is-a-refreshingly-sensitive-take-on-a-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;The Girl From Plainville&#8217; Is A Refreshingly Sensitive Take on a Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36c416441c6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36c416441c6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-girl-from-plainville-is-a-refreshingly-sensitive-take-on-a-tragedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Girl_From_Plainville_Is_A_Refreshingly_Sensitive_Take_on_a_Tragedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Girl From Plainville&#8217; Is A Refreshingly Sensitive Take on a Tragedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Girl_From_Plainville_Is_A_Refreshingly_Sensitive_Take_on_a_Tragedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Girl From Plainville&#8217; Is A Refreshingly Sensitive Take on a Tragedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Elle Fanning leads Hulu\u2019s thoughtful, realistic dramatization of the now-infamous Michelle Carter texting suicide case.&amp;#13;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<pre><code>                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/the-girl-from-plainville.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elle Fanning in The Girl From Plainville\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/the-girl-from-plainville.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/the-girl-from-plainville-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Hulu&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0\u00b7 Published on March 28th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    In Hulu\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Girl From Plainville&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;, seventeen-year-old Michelle Carter (&lt;strong&gt;Elle Fanning&lt;\/strong&gt;) fixates on stories about love and death. She watches &lt;em&gt;The Fault in Our Stars&lt;\/em&gt;, and puts the most heartbreaking episode of &lt;em&gt;Glee&lt;\/em&gt; on repeat like a comfort watch. These are stories that, if not exactly aiming to make sense of death, at least attempt to say something meaningful about it. They boil it down to a metaphor or sing it out with a song.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><em>The Girl From Plainville<\/em> succeeds by doing the opposite: when Carter eventually goes on to push her heavily depressed boyfriend into committing suicide, the series lets itself live in the uneasiness of a death that\u2019s all questions, no answers. Most importantly, this sensitively told drama never sacrifices one iota of its real-life subjects\u2019 complexity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Hannah<\/strong>\u2018s (<em>The Dropout<\/em>) and <strong>Patrick Macmanus<\/strong>\u2019 (<em>Dr. Death<\/em>) series is based on a real instance; Conrad Roy committed suicide in 2014, and the girl he had been texting on and off for years, Carter, was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter after she was revealed to have encouraged his suicide via texts and a fateful phone call. Headlines about the case were stomach-churning, but Erin Lee Carr\u2019s detailed documentary,<em> I Love You, Now Die<\/em>, painted a more nuanced\u2013if still disturbing\u2013portrait of the event. <em>The Girl From Plainville<\/em> continues down the route Carr carved out, telling the story with a tremendous amount of empathy for all involved.<\/p>\n<p>Fanning is excellent as Michelle, who the series portrays as a bundle of complexities. She works hard to make and keep friends, but her dips into insecurity and neediness seem to turn people off. She\u2019s typically a positive and giving person, but she also suffers from eating disorders, a strange knack for twisting the truth, and a deep, painful sort of sadness. Her most damaging habit, though, seems to be romanticizing the unromantic. When she begins texting Conrad (<strong>Colton Ryan<\/strong>, so good it\u2019s scary), he\u2019s already drowning in thoughts of suicide, but she attempts to steer him towards her instead.<\/p>\n<p>The series elevates itself beyond a simple restating of facts through its pitch-perfect understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, fantasy, and the role both play in modern teen life. When Conrad dies, people in his life are hesitant to call Michelle his girlfriend, since the pair\u2019s relationship took place largely over text. The show could have easily used the \u201csecret online life\u201d aspect of this story as a scare tactic, but it instead recognizes the very real connection technology provides these two lonely people.<\/p>\n<p>When Michelle gets lost in a text conversation with Conrad, he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears next to her, actively listening as she pours out her pain. The intensity of the couple\u2019s relationship is conveyed through these well-executed scenes, which use as few filmmaking tricks as possible to maintain their realism. Occasionally, we see more fantastic variations of the truth, as when Michelle dreams up fantasy scenes that feel like moments from Glee.<\/p>\n<p>These scenes are perhaps the series\u2019 best case for its own existence. Plenty of recent series have proven that anyone with a production crew can re-enact a crime or a tragedy, but a competent true-crime series isn\u2019t the same as an ethical one. <em>The Girl From Plainville<\/em> doesn\u2019t just treat its central relationship with compassion and realism, either; it treats every relationship that way. In real life, both Roy and Carter had sought mental health care before they met, and the two continue to get some type of treatment\u2013and deal with the quiet fallout within their families\u2013throughout their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad\u2019s suicidal ideation, in particular, is handled with such truthfulness that it makes most other depictions of the illness feel utterly unrealistic in comparison. There\u2019s absolutely nothing romantic about the way he feels. His parents, played by <strong>Norbert Leo Butz<\/strong> and an on-her-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> <strong>Chlo\u00eb Sevigny<\/strong>, do their best to keep him okay and alive. After they find out about his suicide attempt, they don\u2019t talk much about it, but celebrate his victories a little more pointedly, and treat him more gingerly even as they push him towards the adult rites of passage that trigger his anxiety. They come across just like typical real parents, like people who could live down the street. That makes their inability to reach him when he\u2019s standing right next to them all the more heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of its eight episodes, <em>The Girl From Plainville<\/em> weaves together two timelines, with one plot set during the aftermath of Roy\u2019s death and the other detailing everything that came before. By the series\u2019 end, there\u2019s no sense to be made of its tragedy, but that in no way makes the show feel pointless. On the contrary, <em>The Girl From Plainville<\/em> stands out as one of the most nuanced and deliberately un-sensational looks at the \u201csecret lives\u201d of teens I\u2019ve ever seen, and that makes it vital. Its central relationship may be disturbing, yet it\u2019s crystal clear in its profound depiction of the mental illness that isolates so many young adults, and the technology they inevitably reach for when it does.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Hulu, The Girl From Plainville\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/val_2019.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, TV-lover, and mac and cheese enthusiast. As a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects, she covers television through regular reviews and her recurring column, Episodes. She is also a voting member of the Critics Choice Association&#8217;s television and documentary branches. Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aandeandval\">@aandeandval<\/a> (She\/her)        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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